The Daily Star was the only British newspaper to report (13/02/2016) that the Zika virus may not be the cause of microcephaly in infants born recently to mothers in Brazil.
Nevertheless, a number of ecologist websites have run the story proposing that we are being spun the wrong culprit for the debilitating condition.
GLOBAL EMERGENCY
The World Health Organisation has issued a “global emergency”, the UK has sent spray planes to kill the carrier mosquitoes in affected areas, British tourists have been warned against unprotected conjugal activity and women have been told to avoid getting pregnant.
Brazil, where more than 4,000 cases of the birth defect have been reported since October, has even faced calls to postpone the Rio 2016 Olympics this summer.
But experts have now cast doubt on the link between Zika and microcephaly, and the spraying campaign is now under the spotlight.
PESTICIDE ADDED TO WATER
Two independent teams of doctors now believe a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes may be the real cause of microcephaly. The researchers are from Brazil and Argentina and they point out that the government have been adding a chemical known as pyriproxyfen to the drinking water supply in exactly the area of Brazil where the majority of microcephaly cases have been reported.
Pyriproxyfen targets the larvae of mosquitoes, stunting their development, stopping them from growing proper wings and genitalia. It is not implausible, say the doctors, that in humans the same pesticide could cause babies’ heads to fail to develop properly, limiting their brain’s development.
RELATIVELY HARMLESS
Zika has been known for years as normally a relatively harmless virus that causes little more than a rash. No birth defects have been reported in some areas where as many as three in four people have it.
The virus has been present in Brazil for a number of years, but the outbreak of microcephaly was only reported in April 2015. That was just a few months after pyriproxyfen was added to the water supply.
The researchers also point out that 3,177 pregnant women have contracted Zika in Colombia and none of the babies have developed microcephaly.
Experts double-checking the reports of 4,100 cases from Brazil over the last six months claim as many as half of the children either don’t have microcephaly or the Zika virus.
ARGENTINE PHYSICIANS FIND LINK
The Argentine doctors’ organisation, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, is one of the two groups of doctors viewing the Zika-link with suspicion.
Microcephaly was quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns say the Ministry failed to recognise that in the area where most sick people live, the pyriproxyfen chemical larvicide was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014 in a State-controlled programme aimed at eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes.
The Physicians added that the Pyriproxyfen is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese “strategic partner” of Monsanto. Pyriproxyfen is a growth inhibitor of mosquito larvae, which alters the development process from larva to pupa to adult. The resulting malformations are supposed to kill or disable the juveniles. It is an endocrine disruptor and is teratogenic (causes birth defects), according to the Physicians.
The Physicians commented: “Malformations detected in thousands of children from pregnant women living in areas where the Brazilian state added Pyriproxyfen to drinking water are not a coincidence, even though the Ministry of Health places a direct blame on the Zika virus for this damage.”
Just as pyriproxyfen is a relatively new introduction to the Brazilian environment, so is the microcephaly increase a relatively new phenomenon. The larvicide seems a plausible causative factor in microcephaly – far more so than GM mosquitoes, which some have blamed for the Zika epidemic and thus for the birth defects. More about them below. Out of 404 confirmed microcephaly cases in Brazil, only 17 (4.2%) tested positive for the Zika virus.
BRAZILIAN HEALTH EXPERTS AGREE
The Argentine Physicians concur with the Brazilian doctors’ and public health researchers’ organisation, Abrasco, which has published its report independently.
Abrasco also names Pyriproxyfen as a likely cause of the microcephaly. It condemns the strategy of chemical control of Zika-carrying mosquitoes, which it says is contaminating the environment as well as people and is not decreasing the numbers of mosquitoes. Abrasco suggests that this strategy is in fact driven by the commercial interests of the chemical industry, which it says is deeply integrated into the Latin American ministries of health, as well as the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organisation.
Abrasco names the British GM insect company Oxitec as part of the corporate lobby that is distorting the facts about Zika to suit its own profit-making agenda. Oxitec sells GM mosquitoes engineered for sterility and markets them as a disease-combatting product – a strategy condemned by the Argentine Physicians as “a total failure, except for the company supplying mosquitoes”.
WILD FEMALES REJECT GM MALES
Oxitec sells male GM mosquitoes, supposedly in order to decrease the local population. A lethal gene is inserted in those mosquitoes, which is transmitted to the offspring, causing death to larvae if it is not blocked by an antibiotic (tetracycline).
NaturalNews say: ‘Currently in Brazil nearly 15 million GM mosquitoes have been released, and the failure is complete. Where field tests were carried out, less than 15% of larvae were transgenic, that is to say… wild females are not accepting the English mosquito from Oxitec.’
But of those that are accepted, the website points out that the female only “stings” when it is pregnant and generating eggs after being fertilised by a male. The biology shows it needs blood components in order to develop its eggs. ‘So, if millions of male mosquitoes are released, there will be many more fertilised females looking to suck the blood of mammals, thus increasing the spreading of the disease from infected people to healthy people!’ protests NaturalNews.
COVER STORY
NaturalNews concludes: ‘It looks like the world’s health authorities are using Zika virus mosquitoes as a cover story to conceal the damage caused by toxic chemicals manufactured by powerful globalist corporations.’
If the doctors are right, that conclusion looks inevitable. Will the mainstream media report it? Don’t hold your breath quite yet.
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Having now read this thoroughly, I agree that it looks very plausible .but I think “hoax” is the wrong word.
For one thing, Zika is not a hoax as stated. That is a real virus.
The proper headline would be “Cause of microcephaly probably NOT Zika”.